Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife

Hardcover, like new. Dust jacket fine, with light rubbing to the top edge only. Boards immaculate. Pages clean throughout and appear unread. Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019. Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Decay of Lying," this scholarly study examines questions of fraudulent authorship in Wilde's literary afterlife, recovering the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited Wilde's persona in the years after his fall from favour with the literary establishment. Gregory Mackie is an associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where he specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history, and serves as Norman Colbeck Curator of UBC Library's Rare Books and Special Collections. Published with the support of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4875-0290-4. Ships from Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.